Veterans

My platoon was given up to a combat engineer battalion and then I was reorganized and ended up a platoon leader for a platoon made up of 2x tanks, 2x brads, and 1.5 squads of dismounted Infantry. I never bought the argument that our heavy armor wasn't an asset in an urban environment. To an undisciplined enemy, the tanks always drew the majority of the enemy fire (and most enemy fire did nothing to my tanks, but it would have messed up my bradley or my dismounted sections).

I loved having heavy armor in my platoon. I'm so thankful that I didn't have to do a stint ever as a Light Infantryman. I had enough close calls when I was dismounted, but I always knew I had a tank and/or a brad close by to cover my ass.

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Speaking of covering our asses, the above picture is a platoon picture that we took just before we left Iraq in March of 2005.